Max and Marx
A Silly Poem About Two Confused Animals
I have a dog whose name is Max.
He never barks, but always quacks.
I have a duck whose name is Marx.
He doesn't quack but often barks.
Max will swim and catch small fishes,
While Marx eats from the doggy dishes.
This pair's confused, I will admit,
but that's not all the end of it...
A prowler creept by late one night;
He didn't know there'd be a fight.
He heard a dog bark in the house,
And then, as quiet as a mouse,
He made his way back to the shed
Where he almost lost his head.
He heard the quack, but saw no duck.
Instead, he thought he'd be in luck
And help himself to all my tools,
But Mama didn't raise no fools.
From the shadows Max did quack
A warning to that man out back,
Then sprang and bit him on the thigh.
My, how that poor man did cry
For the "duck" to let him go!
He won't be coming here no mo'.
Published by Jill Davidson
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17 Comments
Post a CommentWhat a wonderful poem for children and adults alike.
Very amusing. Thanks for the tip. You wrote this way before I joined AC, so I probably would have missed it.
this is very silly, and it made me smile, I also like the rhyming schemes here nice work! :)
True story? Cute.
Had a very good laugh reading this.
Funny poem!
NO, Allene, not inspired by true events. I have three dogs but none of them quack, although they do their fair share of barking! Just a silly poem that popped into my head one day. I grew up with Dr. Seuss and silly nonsense books!
Nice sense of rhythm, easy flow and lots of fun! I write for kids (just getting to the submission part) and on ocassion use rhyme. I know it has fallen out of favor among a lot of editors of kids' stories, but I think of the playfulness of Dr. Seuss and the imagination of Edward Lear. And rhyming verse with good meter is a great teaching tool to help kids memorize. But I digress... Gotta ask, J.E. ... was this poem "inspired by true events"?? : )
Adorable poem with lots of creativity!
Very cute poem.. I'll hae to train my cat to bark like a dog.